The Wisconsin Idea

Feature

BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren Joins Bernie Sanders in Opposing Trump’s Massive War Budget

All other 2020 candidates have remained silent on how they will vote.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

Centrists Don’t Want “Party Unity”—They Want to Defend the Wealthy

Attacks by moderate Democrats on Bernie Sanders are really about defending corporate power and structural inequality.

Christopher D. Cook

Dispatch

Climate Change Is Fueling a Farming Boom in Alaska

It's becoming easier for the northern state to grow its own food—and more necessary.

Yereth Rosen

Viewpoint

Trump Has Quietly Implemented a Far-Right Takeover of the Courts That Will Last Generations

Imperiling progressive change "for as long as we live," 1 in 5 federal judges is now a Trump appointee.

Jake Johnson

Feature

“Quite Divorced From Reality”: Climate Scientist, Activists Call Out Shell Exec at UN Conference

The oil company is posing as a climate champion, but critics call it greenwashing.

Christine MacDonald

Rural America

First Amendment Loses as Pipeline Industry Scores Another Win in Wisconsin

Joseph Bullington

Culture

Restorative Justice: A Much-Needed Alternative to Mass Incarceration

Courts and schools across the country are looking beyond punishment.

In These Times Editors

Culture

The New Deal Funded the Arts. The Green New Deal Should, Too.

Cultural work has a key role to play in shaping the climate-friendly economy.

Ashley Dawson

Dispatch

“Our Biggest Enemy Is PG&E”: Inside the Fight to Put Utilities Under Public Control

Evacuees of the Kincade Fire and members of the Democratic Socialists of America are demanding PG&E be dismantled.

Nuala Bishari